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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Cortina
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 October 2006
32pp KBA Press To Enhance Danish
Newspaper Colour
When Danish newspaper and semi-commercial contract printer Elbo Avistryk celebrates its 20th anniversary next autumn it will be gearing up for growth with the installation of a 32pp KBA Cortina press.
When Danish newspaper and semi-commercial contract printer Elbo Avistryk celebrates its 20th anniversary next autumn it will be gearing up for growth with the installation of a 32pp KBA Cortina press Elbo Avistryk director Gunnar Christiansen, explained: "The market for frees and semi-commercials is fiercely competitive, so to maintain our reputation for excellence we are enhancing colour quality in line with customer demands, increasing automation at our web printing plant and generally making production even more efficient." He added: "That is also the reason we will relocate to new premises and upgrading our newspaper technology
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 13 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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During the selection process the KBA Cortina repeatedly came out on top because it delivers a superb print quality with 50 per cent less dot gain, it can handle a 60lpc or FM screen, generates a minimum of waste, requires fewer personnel and can be made ready for the next job in no time." The order from Elbo Avistryk raises the total number of waterless Cortinas sold in the past three years to nine, or 37 towers containing 296 printing couples.
Seven of the presses are already running in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland.
The floor-mounted Cortina will have a cylinder circumference of 1,120mm (44"), a 560mm (22-inch) cut-off and a maximum web width of 1,580mm (62.25").
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Dutch And Belgians Spend Big On Web Capacity
The Netherlands and Belgium have been making high-level investments in new web offset capacity over the past six months according to German press manufacturer KBA.
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KBA is majoring on the developments it has made with its Cortina waterless newspaper press at the Ifra Expo in Amsterdam.
Belgian Media Group's Total Waterless Switch
Early this year Belgian media group De Persgroep in Asse near Brussels placed an order for a 48-page KBA Cortina scheduled for installation in autumn 2005 at a new printing plant in Lokeren.
It will be capable of delivering 32 broadsheet or 64 tabloid pages, all in full colour, at a rate of 40,000 copies per hour, said KBA.
The press line will comprise two eight-couple towers with central ink pumping, automatic blanket washing, KBA Platetronic automatic plate changing, KBA Rollertronic automatic roller adjustment and KBA's new, remote-controlled Niptronic bearing units for the fine adjustment of impression pressure.
The configuration includes two KBA Pastomat RC reelstands for an enlarged reel diameter of 1,500mm (59"), KBA Patras A reel logistics, two turner bars, a folder superstructure with two formers, cut-off register controls and a 2:5:5 KBA KF5 jaw folder.
The press will also feature a ribbon stitcher, perforator and quarterfold capability.
Since most of the products Elbo Avistryk prints are tabloids, KBA's patented ribbon splitting device has been added to ease production and cut make-ready.
That allows the webs to be guided un-turned over the two formers, and the slit ribbons to be assigned more flexibly to the individual stitchers.
The press is controlled from a console sporting KBA technology, plus a service PC for remote on-line maintenance.
There are plans to add an overhead heatset dryer with associated extras, a second folder and in-line finishing facilities (skip slitter, gluing device and ribbon stitcher) at a later date.
Christiansen continued: "We went waterless in sheetfed offset some years ago, so we are familiar with the basic technology.
What also influenced our choice of KBA and the innovative Cortina was the professionalism of KBA's project team in Wurzburg and that of KBA Nordic's team here in Denmark, who customised the configuration according to our precise specifications. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
Also, in the early 1960s my father was pleased with an Albert press he had from what is now KBA Frankenthal.".
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